Everything Stays: In the Future

Pain and Misery (Season 4 Finale)

Sterling, Phoenix, Hunter, and Eminence are all shown being rolled outside a hospital, doctors, and nurses treating the students to the burns and other painful bits along their bodies. Thankfully, aura's are doing most of the work for the doctors, but there is still some pain on Sterling's face. As he is in a room, Sterling looks up and sees the news is playing in his room, mostly about that night's attack on the city. However, what was interesting (at least to him) was the fact that Elsa was now registered as missing and the mystery behind the communication blackout was still a priority.

As he struggled to get up, a nurse ran in and slowly pushed him back down, doing what she could to ease the pain he was in. Sterling glared a bit as he kept watching the news report, seeing the destruction of his home before his very eyes.

Meanwhile, Clayton is thrown into an Atlesian prison truck, fully cuffed and locked up. Winter and Whitely watch as he is driven away towards Kirkland Prison. Winter sighed as she tightened her cuffs along her gloves and she began to walk away. Whitley glanced between her and the prison van, choosing to follow his sister. He runs up a bit faster to match up with Winter's pace.

Whitely: So...what do we do now? He wouldn't talk and-

Winter: Oh he'll talk. One of these days.

Whitely cocked an eyebrow as Winter continued to walk down the street. She sighs and pinches the bring of her nose in frustration. Whitely glances back as some troopers walk up to him. He seems to argue with them until one grabs his arm. He shifts his arm to get away from the grab and nods a little as he walks over towards Winter.

Whitely: Your soldiers are quite evident into enforcing your "No Civilian Fighting" policy.

Winter: I know you don't like it. But I am thankful for the assist. You need to get going and get into safety. I can find Weiss, Neptune, Sterling, Elsa, all of them. You get to safety and-

Whitely: I'll find Sterling! You make sure the city is protected!

Whitely turned back to two of the soldiers and gave them hand gestures to mobilize into a small force. Winter rolled her eyes and chuckled slightly before she ran off towards the Manta's crash site down in Mantle.

In Mantle, Cinder Fall is kicked in the mouth as Elsa slowly walks up to her, ready to fight all she can. Cinder slowly looks up from the kick only to see Elsa standing her, ice in both hands. Cinder attempts to move again but Elsa throws the ice balls at her, freezing some of Cinder's body. Cinder spins around due to the force and when she returns her gaze to Elsa, the general walks up and kicks the ice off of her right arm, shattering it, breaking her arm clean off.

Cinder yelled in pain as she fell to the ground. Cinder slowly began to crawl back as Elsa slowly walked up to her, anger in her eyes. Cinder looked up to Elsa and attempted to summon up even more magic to stop Elsa. After one blast, Elsa evaded and slashed Cinder's hand, cutting off two of her fingers. Cinder yelled in pain as Elsa kicked her to the ground once again.

At this point, several civilians were outside, watching the fight, coming to see what all the fuss was about. Weiss and Neptune also arrived on the scene. The two looked around until they finally saw Elsa and Cinder. Weiss wasted no time and ran over with Neptune giving minor chase.

Weiss: Elsa!

Elsa glanced over and saw Weiss.

Weiss: This isn't you! This-

Elsa: What?! (Her gaze goes back to Cinder) You want her to stay alive! She's a murder, a conspirator, villain, whatever you want to call her! She's evil incarnate.

Weiss: I won't deny that! But killing her will get you nowhere!

Elsa: Excuse me, but the last time I checked, I didn't need a moral compass from daddy's little girl.